Grigory Gershuni

Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni (29 September 1870-29 March 1908) was a Russian Jewish revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, a major leftist party in the Russian Empire.

Biography
Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni was born in Kaunas, Russian Empire on 29 September 1870 to a family of Lithuanian Jews, and he became an apprentice pharmacist while travelling across Russia with his uncle. In 1898, his parents were killed in a pogrom, a year after he opened his own bacteriological laboratory in Minsk. Gershuni helped in founding the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1901 after being arrested by the czarist secret police for socialist activities, and he led the SR Combat Organization terrorist group. His group was involved in the murders of several high-ranking government officials, and Gershuni escaped from a czarist prison in 1906. He died in Zurich, Switzerland of tuberculosis in 1908 at the age of 37.